How I agree with Jean Calder's article "Clergy have a duty to safeguard our Heritage" (The Argus, June 3).

I was born in Brighton and we lived two roads below our beloved St Saviour's Church.

My father and mother were married there, all six of their children (one brother and five sisters) were christened there and all of us, except my brother, were married there, two of us during the Second World War.

There was a lovely crypt which was used for many functions and a large hall at the bottom of Ditchling Rise, near Preston Road, which was a hive of activity with socials, prize-givings and sports activities. I don't know what happened to it, though, as, after I was married, we lived in Hangleton, then ten years in Nigeria, then returned to the family home in Brighton.

St Augustine's, too, was a flourishing church with many activities, including dances.

It is unbelievable the Church's only response to smaller congregations is to close the churches; worst of all is the threat to St Peter's, where I had many close friends.

As Brighton and Hove is now a city, St Peter's should be designated a cathedral - it is in a marvellous location in the centre of town where the main London-to-Brighton traffic passes to the seafront.

I attended St Nicholas's Church (St Nick's to us) for nearly 25 years until I had to move to be near my daughter and still have close friends there.

What has happened to all the Church records, going back many years? They had a lot of valuable information for tracing your family, and so on.

-PF Finch, Worthing